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omgawd we are so stupid. I hate this country. This is your taxes at work. Fuck I can only imagine what the rest of the world thinks. Fuck... gawd damn we are dumb

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google's market-leading Chrome web browser, researchers at Awake Security told Reuters, highlighting the tech industry's failure to protect browsers as they are used more for email, payroll and other sensitive functions. Alphabet Inc's Google said it removed more than 70 of the malicious add-ons from its official Chrome Web Store after being alerted by the researchers last month. “When we are alerted of extensions in the Web Store that violate our policies, we take action and use those incidents as training material to improve our automated and manual analyses,” Google spokesman Scott Westover told Reuters. Most of the free extensions purported to warn users about questionable websites or convert files from one format to another. Instead, they siphoned off browsing history and data that provided credentials for access to internal business tools. Based on the number of downloads, it was the most far-reaching malicious Chrome store campaign to date, according to Awake co-founder and chief scientist Gary Golomb. Google declined to discuss how the latest spyware compared with prior campaigns, the breadth of the damage, or why it did not detect and remove the bad extensions on its own despite past promises to supervise offerings more closely. It is unclear who was behind the effort to distribute the malware. Awake said the developers supplied fake contact information when they submitted the extensions to Google. “Anything that gets you into somebody’s browser or email or other sensitive areas would be a target for national espionage as well as organized crime,” said former National Security Agency engineer Ben Johnson, who founded security companies Carbon Black and Obsidian Security. The extensions were designed to avoid detection by antivirus companies or security software that evaluates the reputations of web domains, Golomb said. If someone used the browser to surf the web on a home computer, it would connect to a series of websites and transmit information, the researchers found. Anyone using a corporate network, which would include security services, would not transmit the sensitive information or even reach the malicious versions of the websites. “This shows how attackers can use extremely simple methods to hide, in this case, thousands of malicious domains,” Golomb said. After this story's publication, Awake released its research, including the list of domains and extensions. here All of the domains in question, more than 15,000 linked to each other in total, were purchased from a small registrar in Israel, Galcomm, known formally as CommuniGal Communication Ltd. Awake said Galcomm should have known what was happening. In an email exchange, Galcomm owner Moshe Fogel told Reuters that his company had done nothing wrong. “Galcomm is not involved, and not in complicity with any malicious activity whatsoever,” Fogel wrote. “You can say exactly the opposite, we cooperate with law enforcement and security bodies to prevent as much as we can.” Fogel said there was no record of the inquiries Golomb said he made in April and again in May to the company’s email address for reporting abusive behavior, and he asked for a list of suspect domains. After publication, Fogel said the majority of those domain names were inactive and that he would continue to investigate the others. The Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees registrars, said it had received few complaints about Galcomm over the years, and none about malware. While deceptive extensions have been a problem for years, they are getting worse. They initially spewed unwanted advertisements, and now are more likely to install additional malicious programs or track where users are and what they are doing for government or commercial spies. Malicious developers have been using Google’s Chrome Store as a conduit for a long time. After one in 10 submissions was deemed malicious, Google said in 2018 here it would improve security, in part by increasing human review. But in February, independent researcher Jamila Kaya and Cisco Systems’ Duo Security uncovered here a similar Chrome campaign that stole data from about 1.7 million users. Google joined the investigation and found 500 fraudulent extensions. “We do regular sweeps to find extensions using similar techniques, code and behaviors,” Google's Westover said, in identical language to what Google gave out after Duo's report.

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The layers of stupid is layered like a onion. Yankkkee doodle dum dums you create your own pain but at least jesus won. Nailed to a cross via the state at the request of a angry mob who would rather barabbas fascist roam free. Free range fascist and kids in schools that literately look like prisions. It is beyond the pale... if you are smart enough to understand and have the means.... just leave. 40 years in the core.... "I ain't mad at cha" it will not improve... liberalism is a right wing ideology. My biggest regret is never leaving now it seems I am trapped. This is all by design by those above. No hope in the Imperial Core.... If I were to be at a no kings protest it would to be to observe your underdevelopment... The Democrats are right wing and progressives are a satellite of them. You have no real choices, you already don't own shit and it is all about managing perception. Capitalism is the comodification of the natural world... epstien this epstein that... you think ol jeff is the only one...it gets worse pffft this is the yankkkee ladder pulling way. This is who we are and we have no say in this. Protest are for goverments that listen and I observe yankkkees like a zookeeper watches over monkeys in a zoo. A nation built for cars and children behind bars... school to prision then free labor pipline. There is a reason why bad things happen. It is a business model.

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Dear Russia,

Please nuke America! We need to start from scratch.

Amen

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The usa is a brutal imperialist empire... fascist are the useful idiots of empire...fascism is capitalism in crisis and imperialism is its highest form. The usa financed hitler during ww2... nato is filled with nazis... the usa and the catholic church trafficed nazi into the usa rocket program and around the world... doll baby it is like the first day on earth for you but yes USA = Bad ..... we are the baddies... we are a nazi nation. No political party will save you... you will wish you were never born. Every social movement that recieved a victory was merely a pause, a form of pacification. We are not a democracy but the head of the snake of the trans-international security state put it bluntly... the yankkkeee cartel. Abandon hope all who enter. Capitalism will end all human life... The goal is to turn you into a slave with techno chains. STOP HAVING CHILDREN... You are not safe in the imperial core... You are a product of your enviroment.... We are a empty vessel of lesser things.... a pit of despair.

Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States

The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World

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In order to use a financial aid program for secondary education, soldiers now need approval from their supervisors.

All soldiers will now need approval from their supervisors before they can receive financial assistance under the Army’s Tuition Assistance program, which helps soldiers pay for taking higher education classes.

The new requirement for the program was one of several recent policy changes to the service’s regulation for the Army Continuing Education System, which oversees educational programs and services. As part of the new policy, soldiers also need command approval for credentialing assistance — a separate Army program that helps soldiers pay to obtain industry-recognized credentials, such as certifications for information technology and project management.

Prior to the most recent policy updates, soldiers did not need command approval to request tuition assistance, said Maj. Travis Shaw, an Army spokesperson.

Under the new requirement, a “supervisor” is defined as the person who signs a soldier’s performance report, Shaw told Task & Purpose. If that person is unavailable, soldiers can ask a member of their chain of command or another person appointed by the commander to approve their tuition assistance requests, he said.

When Task & Purpose asked if the requirement was meant to reduce the amount of money that the Army spends on tuition assistance for soldiers, Shaw replied: “The intent of command approval for Tuition Assistance and Credentialing Assistance requests is to ensure leadership visibility into soldiers’ voluntary education activities and will help soldiers balance their education efforts with service responsibilities, including deployments and unit training activities.”

Stars and Stripes first reported that soldiers now need command approval for tuition assistance requests. The program pays active-duty, National Guard and Reserve soldiers up to $4,500 per year for a maximum of 18 semester hours, according to the Army. Soldiers can receive financial assistance for up to 130 hours total of undergraduate credit and 39 semester hours of graduate credit.

The updated regulation codifies changes that the Army first announced in 2024. At the time, Army officials also announced cuts to credentialing assistance, including reducing the maximum amount of money soldiers could receive each year from $4,000 to $2,000.

Army Human Resources Command announced in a March 19 Facebook post that the service made several changes to its programs that help soldiers pay for both secondary and vocational training, including requiring soldiers’ supervisors to approve their requests for tuition and credentialing assistance.

“These updates are designed to support long-term sustainability of Army education benefits, preserve resources for Soldiers where they’re most needed, and increase leader involvement in the approval process,” the post says.

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Yet I see no opposition no push back whatsoever? Come on brains.... The times we live in... I call bullshit... all a distraction but still open to it as it would be a convient truth to tear down whats left of the whimpering left in the imperial core. I mean yankkkkee imperialist dum dum land is commiting a genocide. It is like womens sufferage but only for the karens. Yeeeeehaaawwww cowboyzzzzz It is like a mini BLM moment for the corpos to make sure we have no heros.... Pulling the UNO reverse Card. Woke is a free agent!!! The idea of great man of history is wack anyways... Like you should lean on imperical data that isn't tainted by selfinterest. We getting steam rolled. The corpos like to create problems to solve and they always ahead of said problem. It is all about managing perception.

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Video: British journalist Steve Sweeney and his cameraman are wounded in Israeli missile attack in southern Lebanon as he reports live on air

This is the moment British journalist Steve Sweeney and his cameraman are wounded in Israeli missile attack in southern Lebanon as he reports live on air. The pair said an Israeli aircraft launched a missile towards their filming location near the Al-Qasmiya Bridge.

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[-] andybytes@programming.dev 43 points 1 month ago

wE hAvE +0 $aVe +hE cHiLdReN!!!!!

[-] andybytes@programming.dev 37 points 3 months ago

I mean zero to hero.... what be a puss for $15 dollars an hour when joe brandon and dumpy have devalued the dollar by half. We are sick of this shit… get these mouth breathers off our streets.

[-] andybytes@programming.dev 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm always like, read the screen. But you know what? Sometimes they can't fucking see the screen. So you gotta get them a bigger screen. They also won't admit that they can't see the screen. So you're going to have to pick up on cues. If you find yourself saying over and over again, you know, read the screen. You see that on the screen? over in the right hand side of the screen. On the screen.

[-] andybytes@programming.dev 31 points 10 months ago

America is such a living hell that like I don't even want to participate in a revolution. It's just going to be a libturd or right-wing-hog revolution anyways. I really think a lot of my social ills, anxiety and depression just comes from the world I live in. I truly believe I am a product of my environment. I would leave the United States in a heartbeat with just the clothes on my back. The only time I've ever been happy is when I was able to commute on my bicycle. Ever since COVID, people have been driving like fucking jackasses. And now I live in an area that I can't ride my bike no more. I have never been so depressed in my whole fucking miserable life. Like a scientist, I want to see if it's me or my environment. I think America causes physical and mental illness. I sometimes think if it were up to me and I wasn't allowed to leave the United States, but I could die in a nuclear explosion and just completely wipe off USA from the face of the earth. I say to myself, I would push that fucking button for future generations, for the world. The world is capitalistic and the Yankee has a lot of leverage, a lot of places in Europe start adopting the Yankee way. It terrifies me, knowing that American culture like the disease that it is Spreads like a plus-filled rash. I am very unhappy. These feelings compile over time. And you're in such agony. You try to figure out why. And then eventually it clicks. America is a piece of shit.

[-] andybytes@programming.dev 39 points 11 months ago

POS...probably a future cop

[-] andybytes@programming.dev 27 points 11 months ago

Hitler enjoyed when his inner circle fought with each other. Elon Musk is going out on good terms. The rich have solidarity in their class. Instead of focusing on Elon Musk, maybe you should focus on the dystopic security state that is being built by Palantir. Peter thiel is the anti social Angry gay man who runs that shit.

[-] andybytes@programming.dev 33 points 11 months ago

AI is a fucking buzzword

[-] andybytes@programming.dev 40 points 11 months ago

I remember when I was younger and I was really learning about the capitalist system, but not from a communist point of view or a socialist point of view. I was just caught up with libertarianism and right-wing ideology and whatever, but nothing like it is today and I was learning about IBM and how they categorize the Jews in the camps. And then I realized all these corporations all have a legacy of brutality. There's more to all this, and people are just not strong enough to accept what's happening in our country. I'm a Libertarian Socialist.

[-] andybytes@programming.dev 27 points 1 year ago

Windows is the virus.

[-] andybytes@programming.dev 26 points 1 year ago

Maybe due to all of the accomplishments of the Cheeto king's administration life expectancy will be measured in months to hide the fact that our collective life expectancy has been drastically reduced. When you got studies coming out saying that the poorest European lives about as long as the richest American, well you know you got a problem.

[-] andybytes@programming.dev 42 points 1 year ago

Looks like they are missing the plot. Logos are supposed to be simple...

[-] andybytes@programming.dev 30 points 1 year ago

I love France they take food and tradition seriously while at the same time their own government is afraid off them.

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